Tierra del Fuego
Proper noun
Meaning
An island at the southern tip of South America, divided between Chile and Argentina.
The archipelago consisting of this island and a number of smaller surrounding islands.
Synonym: (archaic) Fireland
A province of Argentina. Capital: Ushuaia.
A province of Chile. Capital: Porvenir.
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In 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten 's rounding of Cape Horn proved that Tierra del Fuego was a relatively small island, while in 1642 Abel Tasman 's first pacific voyage proved that Australia was not part of the mythical southern continent.
Recent history (1940–present) seeAlso In 1945 a division of Chilean CORFO (Spanish acronym for Production Development Corporation) engaged in oil exploration made a breakthrough discovery of oil in northern Tierra del Fuego.
Chilean radar supplied the British with information on Argentine jet movements in Tierra del Fuego, from where the Argentine Air Force launched raids on targets in the Falklands.
In the Southern Hemisphere, all of Tierra del Fuego lies outside the polar region in Nordenskiöld's system, but part of the island (including Ushuaia, Argentina ) is reckoned as being within the Antarctic under Köppen's.
It was published in the 20th century and considered an important ethnological work. citation An 1879 Chilean expedition led by Ramón Serrano Montaner reported large amounts of placer gold in the streams and river beds of Tierra del Fuego.
Londonderry Island is situated off Tierra del Fuego in Chile.